Distributed in the United States and internationally by Naxos and Gloriae Dei Cantores Recordings, the choir’s discography of over 50 recordings showcases their extensive repertoire, encompassing both masterworks and rarely performed musical treasures from Gregorian chant to the 21st century.

Highlights of the choir’s career include three invitational tours of Russia, opening the 900th anniversary of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, live radio and television broadcasts with the BBC, film soundtracks, the tree-lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Plaza, and performances in some of the finest concert halls throughout Europe and the United States.

Gloriæ Dei Cantores makes its home at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA, where the choir sings weekly worship services, concerts, and recordings throughout the year. The members’ ongoing life of worship – Sunday Eucharist, Choral Evensong and Liturgy of the Hours in Gregorian chant – is the foundation of the choir’s artistry, enabling their extensive repertoire to become a vibrant form of prayer in any setting. Their music conveys “a kind of utter, rapt, spiritual intensity, that you simply can’t imagine unless you’ve experienced it for yourself.” (American Record Guide)

In the 2022-23 season Andrew sang the role of Urlias in Reinhard Keiser’s Ulysses with the Schwetzinger Festspiele, debated with Semperoper Dresden as Director Hummel in Aribert Reimann’s The Ghost Sonata, appeared as bass soloist in Carnegie Hall in Beethoven’s Mass in C, and made his debut with Opéra Comique, Paris singing the role of Councilman in Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli. In the 2021-22 season Nolen sang the role of Jagu in Paderewski’s Manru and the roles of Quarantine Master and University Chancellor in Dream game by Aribert Reimann with Oper Halle, made his debut on the stage of Komische Oper Berlin singing various roles in Barrie Kosky’s production of The Nose by Shostakovich, as well as singing the bass solos in Haydn’s Creation Fair at St. Bart’s Cathedral in New York City. In 2021 he Banco sang in Macbeth with Mecklenburg State Theatre Schwerin and the world premiere of In the stone by Sara Glojnarić and Clemens Meyer with Oper Halle.

Mr. Nolen has performed on international stages including Carnegie Hall, Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra Comique, Paris, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Bonn, Oper Dortmund, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and has toured with The Wooster Group to Brussels, Rotterdam, Edinborough, Luxembourg, New York and Los Angeles. Mr. Nolen has recorded with Bridge Records and can be heard as the bass soloist on Naxos of America’s box set of Haydn’s complete masses with maestra Jane Glover. As an ensemble member of Theater Krefeld-Mönchengladbach from 2011 to 2018, he sang twenty-three roles including Leporello in Don Giovanni, Oroveso in Norma, Swallow in Peter Grimes, Basilio in The Barbers of Siviglia, and the title role in The Marriage of Figaro.

Nolen trained at Oberlin Conservatory, Cincinnati Conservatory, and the Juilliard Opera Center, and was an apprentice artist with Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis. He has worked under the direction of distinguished stage directors and conductors including Colin Graham, Elizabeth LeCompte, Frank Corsaro, Julius Rudel, Robert Shaw, Ton Koopman, Jane Glover, Robert Spano, Stephen Lord, and is frequently the bass of choice for composers to premiere new works.

Recent solo performances include Bach’s B minor Mass with NYC’s American Classical Orchestra as well a recording with Philharmonie Austin; Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Elmhurst Symphony; Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion and both J.S. and C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificats with the Bach Society of St. Louis; Handel’s Messiah with Philadelphia’s Tempesta di Mare, Kansas City’s Spire, and the Augustana Oratorio Society; Samana II in Christopher Theofanidis’ Siddhartha, She with the Yale Philharmonia and Yale Choral Artists; High Priest in Handel’s Saul with the Handel + Haydn Society of Boston, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Mozart’s Requiem with the Bach Society of Winter Park, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Master Chorale of South Florida, and Britten’s War Requiem at the University of Iowa.

Also a committed ensemble performer, Steven has performed nation-wide with Austin’s GRAMMY Award-winning Conspirare, New York City’s GRAMMY Award-winning Roomful of Teeth and GRAMMY-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Miami’s GRAMMY-nominated Seraphic Fire, Tucson’s GRAMMY-nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Providence’s Ensemble Altera, Napa’s Aeternum, and Yale Choral Artists. He recently sang the music of Josquin des Prez at Antwerp, Belgium’s Festival AMUZ with Boston’s Cut Circle.

Steven is a graduate of the University of North Texas and Yale School of Music, where he studied at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music. www.stevensoph.com

She also sang with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, under the direction of John Williams. She can be heard on Gloriæ Dei Cantores albums including Herbert Howells, A Prophecy of Peace: The Choral Works of Samuel Adler, Mozart: Rare Choral Works, American Psalmody II: The Lord is my Shepherd, and The Coming of Christ. Sr. Amanda has studied Gregorian Chant with the late Dr. Mary Berry, and voice with Andrew Nolen, James Demler, Dorothy Richardson, Richard K. Pugsley, and with the acclaimed vocal pedagogy teacher, Richard Miller. Throughout her musical career, she has shared her gifts and love of the Arts with students, helping lead workshops in countries including South Africa, South Korea, Canada, and across the United States.

Kathryn’s second commercial album, Inheritance, will be released in 2026, and features the stunning compositions of living American composers Lori Laitman, Eric Whitacre, Evan Mack, Juliana Hall, David Sisco, Matthew Recio, and Jason Weisinger. In 2023, Kathryn released her first commercial album, Before She Became Fire, presenting a collection of remarkable compositions for mezzo-soprano voice and piano, and showcasing the artistry of American women composers, Lori Laitman, Judith Cloud, and Melissa Dunphy.

As a mezzo-soprano soloist on the concert stage, Kathryn has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia Festival, the Grant Park Music Festival, the Boise Philharmonic, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Festival. She performed with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque in both Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis and Paukenmesse, with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago in Händel’s Messiah, and with Gloriae Dei Cantores in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Mozart’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress. She has also performed multiple times with the Richmond Symphony, presenting Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, and Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht. Kathryn’s performance of Les nuits d’été was graciously embraced: “Her dark lower register tones seemed to fill the considerable space of the Carpenter Theatre and impose a profound quiet on both the accompanying musicians and the audience. It was a remarkable display of artistry exercising spell-binding authority,” (Virginia Classical Music).

As a singer in the competition arena, Kathryn has won several prizes, most notably with the Shreveport Opera, the New York Lyric Opera, the Opera at Florham, the Bel Canto Competition, the Heida Hermanns Competition, the National Opera Association, the Opera Birmingham, the Florida Grand Opera, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Fort Worth McCammon Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Sullivan Foundation, the George London Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and the Opera Columbus Vocal Competition. She was a National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She was a young artist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, Opera Theatre St. Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist Program, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Center. In addition to performing internationally, she is an Associate Professor of Voice and Opera at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia. Kathryn is a native of Columbus, Ohio.

Among his 2025-26 engagements, the tenor returned to the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company as Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol, followed by Iopas in Les Troyens à Carthage with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of Daughter of the Regiment. In the upcoming season, Ferreira will sing roles in A Streetcar Named Desire with Boston Lyric Opera and Pique Dame with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

A much sought-after interpreter of new music, Mr. Ferreira made his European debut in 2021 as
Laertes in the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s Hamlet with State Opera Rousse, Bulgaria.
His successful performance as the Visitor in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Philip Glass’ In
the Penal Colony was called “poignant” by the Wall Street Journal and “perfect” by Opera
News. The tenor can be heard on the premiere recordings of numerous operas, including Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, James MacMillan’s Clemency, Joseph Summer’s The Tempest, and Mario Castenuovo Tedesco’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

In a professional career spanning more than two decades, Ferreira has also appeared with Florida Grand Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Colorado, Virginia Opera, Anchorage Opera, American Repertory Theater, Handel and Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, and Guerilla Opera. He is a proud student of internationally renowned tenor Frank Lopardo. In addition to performing, Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music.

Garland has been a regular with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and has given multiple recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia festival as well as Vocal Arts DC, Marilyn Horne Foundation, The Bard Festival, Camerata Pacifica, the Moab Music Festival, Andre-Turp Society in Montreal, Voce at Pace, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild, Fort Worth Opera, Seattle Opera, Fanfare in Hammond, LA, Cincinnati Matinee Musicale, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Tuesday Morning Music Club and dozens of college music series around the country. In 2014, he was the featured recitalist for the NATS National convention where that organization’s president declared him “the next Thomas Hampson.” (Mr. Garland prefers to think of himself as “the first Andrew Garland.”)

In addition to numerous song and concert premieres, Garland has created operatic roles in the world premieres of Dinner at Eight – William Bolcom/Mark Campbell – Minnesota Opera, Steal a Pencil For Me – Gerald Cohen/Deborah Brevoort – Opera Colorado, The Book Collector – Stella Sung/Ernest Herbert – Dayton Opera, and Artemisia – Laura Schwendinger/Ginger Strand – Prototype Festival. He has also sung with Opera Philadelphia, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, among others.

His latest CD recorded at CU with Jeremy Reger El Rebelde: Gabriela Frank | Dmitri Shostakovich has received rave reviews from the BBC, Opera News, Voix des Arts, San Francisco Classical Voice, Earrelevant, and many other music publications. His previous solo CD American Portraits (with Donna Loewy, piano) went to Number 1 on Amazon Classical. Garland has six other recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, Roven Records, and Azica labels.

Chamber music appearances have included the Ravinia Festival, Camerata Pacifica, Maverick Concerts, Huntsville Chamber Music Society, and he has sung with the Takács, Dover, Calder, Amernet, and Daedalus string quartets.

Garland is the winner of the Lavinia Jensen, NATSAA, Washington International, American Traditions, NATS and Opera Columbus Competition and was a prize winner in the Montreal International, Jose Iturbi, Gerda Lissner, McCammon, and Palm Beach International Competitions. He was an apprentice at the San Francisco Opera Center and the Seattle Opera and Cincinnati Opera Young Artists programs.

An avid cyclist, Andy has ridden the Pan Mass Challenge for 34 years.

Garland is a mentor with Bel Canto Boot Camp, on tonebase.com, at La Musica Lirica program in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, has guest taught at The Juilliard School, CCM, Yale, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Longy School of Music of Bard College, The Cleveland Art Song Festival, The Seagle Colony, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and is an Associate Professor of Voice at The University of Colorado, Boulder.